Andrea Marmo

ESL Teacher 20+ years experience in early childhood/ elementary education

[Andrea Marmo @eslelementary]

@educator4ever36 This!

[Andrea Marmo @eslelementary]

@jenteach13 High expectations and consequences

[Andrea Marmo @eslelementary]

@DanKelley66 Crazy!

[Josh Reynolds @JoshReynolds24]

Vegas scored 4 goals in 6 minutes to go up 4-0

Carolina scores 3 goals in 39 SECONDS to cut it to 4-3

I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again & again & again & again… NOTHING, I repeat, NOTHING is better than the Stanley Cup. Best playoffs in sports.

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Fix #5: Stop treating teachers like they are the problem.

Let me break down Fix #5.
When test scores drop, we look at teachers. When a student falls behind, we look at the teachers. When parents are unhappy, when the data looks bad, when the system fails to deliver what it promised, we look at teachers. The teacher is the most visible person in the building and the least protected. She is also the one who had no vote on the curriculum, no seat at the table when the policy was written, no voice in the decision to socially promote the kid who arrived in her room two years behind. She inherited every decision made above her, and she is held responsible for every outcome below her.

What does it mean in practice?
It means stop blaming the person in the room for the decisions made in the office. It means when a student cannot read in eighth grade, the conversation should start with every adult who passed that child along, not with the teacher who finally said something. It means when test scores are low, the first question should be what the system did or did not provide, not what the teacher did or did not do. It means recognizing that a teacher working with thirty-two kids, an outdated curriculum, no aide, and a phone policy nobody enforces is not failing. She is surviving a system that was not built to support her.

How does this help kids?
A teacher who is constantly defending herself cannot focus on the kids in front of her. A teacher who knows that one bad data point could end her career teaches to the test instead of to the child. A teacher who is blamed for outcomes she cannot control eventually stops trying to control them. When we make teachers the scapegoats for systemic failures, we do not fix the system. We drive the best people out of it and leave the kids with whoever stayed.

How do we make this happen?
We need evaluations that account for what a teacher was given to work with, not just what her students produced. We need administrators who stand between their teachers and unfair blame instead of passing it down the chain. We need policymakers who spend time in actual classrooms before writing the rules that govern them. We need parents who ask what the system did before they ask what the teacher did. And we need to stop treating teacher accountability as the only accountability that matters in a system full of people making decisions that never touch a single child.

The goal is not to protect bad teachers. The goal is to stop treating every teacher as the problem, while the decisions that created the problem go unexamined above her.

#YouWantToFixEducation

[Andrea Marmo @eslelementary]

@JoshPhillipsPhD 💯

[CHS Baseball @Coach_DiStasi]

Congrats and thank you to our sub-varsity teams and coaches @Coach_Yutkins and @Coach_Carpenito for another great year. Our JV team went 15-3 and Freshmen went 10-4. Our program is only as strong as the reinforcements each season. Our boys learn to play hard, smart and to win!

[CHS JV Baseball @Coach_Yutkins]

JV Lions end the season with an 11-1 W over Westford.

Great year with a record of 15-3.

More importantly, this was a great group to coach. Worked hard all season, learned a ton of baseball, and got better as the season went along.

Next step is to attack the offseason!!!

[Andrea Marmo @eslelementary]

@kat_maryb 💯

[Andrea Marmo @eslelementary]

@BuckSexton

[CHS JV Baseball @Coach_Yutkins]

JV Lions win 3-2 over Lawrence.

Mike White battled the elements and threw 5 strong innings. (2 H, 1 ER, 4 K’s)

Rowan Ward closed it out (2IP, 1 H, 3 K’s)

Munson outstanding defense at 1B.

Corbo and Keating 2 hits a piece.

Giachetto, Senkal, and Scomis each with a hit.

[CHS JV Baseball @Coach_Yutkins]

JV Lions beat St. John’s 6-3.

Barth (5 IP, 1 ER, 6 K’s) and Scomis (2 IP, 0 R, 1 Hit, 1 K) were once again excellent on the mound.

Defense was great today highlighted by Kelley making the play of the year at SS.

Hits from:
Corbo
Giachetto
Kelley
Munson
Ward
Keating (2)

[Jarred Geller @jarredgeller]

Here’s what’s always buried in these stories. Teachers need the devices. Not the kids.

A typical public school classroom has gotten impossible to manage. They don’t hold kids back anymore. They don’t expel. They don’t really discipline at all.

So now you have classrooms full of violent, anti-social, distracting behaviors with some kids who can’t recognize their own names and some kids who can read Crime and Punishment.

The variance in the classroom is so high that teachers need the devices to just be able to breathe.

They can’t lesson plan for some kids who need Kindergarten materials and some kids who need 8th grade and everyone in between. Put them on the device.

They can’t manage the behaviors that are disrupting the classroom. Put them on a device.

The device is the band aid to the systemic problems of the education system that no one wants to address. It is very much a screen time nanny for the kids who diverge from the rest of the class.

The problem is… everyone has a device and it’s not fair to let the “bad” kids be the only ones who get screentime. Feels like a reward. So teachers cave and let everyone on, which exacerbates all the root causes and makes everything worse.

All that to say, removing screens won’t do much of anything unless you start bringing back common sense of the 90s and 00s. If you fail, you’re held back. If you’re a jerk, you’re removed.

When the classroom is relatively homogenous, there is no need for devices.

[CHS JV Baseball @Coach_Yutkins]

JV Lions beat N. Andover 8-4. Good team win with contributions from everyone.

Rowan Ward with a strong relief appearance to finish the game:
2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 4 K’s

Offensive standouts:

Giachetto 2-3, 3B, 3 RBI
Kelley 2-3, 2B, RBI
Fazio 2-3

[CHS JV Baseball @Coach_Yutkins]

JV Lions beat Andover 7-4.

Barth with a great performance on the mound going the distance! Allowed just 4 hits, allowing 1 ER, striking out 7.

Offensive standouts:

Ward 3-4, 2 RBI
Flaherty 2-3, 2B, RBI
Giachetto 2-3, BB

Corbo, Clark and Scomis each added a hit.

[CHS Freshman Baseball @Coach_Carpenito]

Freshmen win over Andover 3-2 in 8 innings!
Jaxson McCullough tripled to drive in the tying run, John Poor plated him with a single to win it.
Justin Bernier stellar as usual, allowing 1 run over 6IP.
Gritty win - proud of this group!

[CHS JV Baseball @Coach_Yutkins]

JV Lions win 8-0 over Central throwing a combined no-hitter.

M. White: 5 IP, 0 H, 5 K’s
Scomis: 2 IP, 0 H, 3 K’s

Kelley: 1-2, 3B, 2 HBP
Clark: 2-3

Munson and Flaherty each added a 2B.

Next game Monday @ Andover

[Amy Ingram 🦁🏀 @CoachIngram10]

Normalize raising teacher pay for the ones who’ve been in it for 20 plus years….loyalty should matter in this profession!

[Andrea Marmo @eslelementary]

@FixingEducation All teaching is high demand these days.

[Jason Cooke @cookejournalism]

Hockey player. Nothing like it